Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Group City(?<City>.*)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

\sany whitespace character

Group State(?<State>[^\s\d]+)

Negated Character Class[^\s\d]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\da digit

\s?optionally matches any whitespace character

Group Zip(?<Zip>[0-9\-]{5,})?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

Character Class[0-9\-]{5,}

{5,}matches at least 5 characters from the set below:

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

\-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

$end of line

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

^(?<City>.*)\s(?<State>[^\s\d]+)\s?(?<Zip>[0-9\-]{5,})?$

New

Falls Church VA 23112
Arlington Virginia 24221-2345
Arlington VIRGINIA 24221-2345
TYSON CORNER VA 232342345
TYSON CORNER VA

Falls Church VA
Arlington Virginia
Arlington VIRGINIA

Substitution

Falls Church VA 23112
Arlington Virginia 24221-2345
Arlington VIRGINIA 24221-2345
TYSON CORNER VA 232342345
TYSON CORNER VA

Falls Church VA
Arlington Virginia
Arlington VIRGINIA